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1895–96 – present · 808 West Washington Street
The fame, at its documented size: A block from Tippecanoe stands the other great industrialist's house of the West Washington district: Copshaholm, Joseph D. Oliver's 38-room house of Indiana fieldstone and granite boulders, built 1895–96 to designs of Lamb & Rich of New York on two and a half landscaped acres. Its fame is one step down the federal ladder from its neighbor's and prints at that size: the National Register took it in 1973, in the same early class of listings as Tippecanoe, and the Register has classified it twice — the 1973 nomination's Queen Anne against the Park Service's later Richardsonian Romanesque — with both classifications standing in the record, as the Architecture history prints them. The house came to The History Museum and stands today as its Oliver Mansion, the domestic half of the museum campus the Studebaker collection anchors. Between the two houses, one street holds the wagon works and the plow works at their domestic grandest, each preserved — a concentration of industrial-age domestic fame that is itself the West Washington district's claim, told whole in Architecture.
Cross-reference: Architecture (arch-copshaholm) owns the house — the build, the 1899 music room, the 1938 redecoration, the museum transfer and the style conflict. This entry carries the fame at register size: the listing, the date, and the pairing with the Landmark a block away.
Sources
- The Architecture history in this record (Architecture, arch-copshaholm) — the house whole: Lamb & Rich, 1895–96, 38 rooms, the grounds; the National Register's two classifications of 1973 and the additional documentation.
- National Park Service — the Copshaholm (Joseph D. Oliver House) register record, West Washington Street, South Bend.